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Advocate lawyer - Motoring Criminal Defence (Private client)

Employer
National Motoring Lawyers
Location
North East, South West, Wales
Salary
Freelance - up to £1000 per hearing
Closing date
22 Aug 2022

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Practice area
Crime
Contract type
Freelance
Hours
Full time
PQE
Newly qualified
Position
Solicitor
Sector
Private practice

Job Details

JOB TITLE: Advocate lawyer - Motoring Criminal Defence (Private client)

PQE REQUIRED: 0+ years 

LOCATION: North East, South West, Wales

SALARY: up to £1000 per hearing

THE ROLE:

A role has become available to join our advocates' panel. We are a specialist criminal defence motoring law practice with a niche in drink driving cases. All cases are privately funded. We do not operate legal aid.

You will attend Courts in England and Wales depending on your location to represent the firms’ clients.

PACKAGE:

Fees are on a cost per hearing basis with £1000 payable for trials upon the applicant demonstrating excellence. We operate a flexible non-exclusivity agreement that can be run alongside your usual work. You will automatically qualify for basic panel membership of £200 to £400 per hearing.

THE CANDIDATE:

You must be a Solicitor or Barrister.

You will work self-employed under a panel agreement. The role will suit freelancers as duty solicitor or agency work for other firms can be carried out alongside panel membership.

We provide training on procedural defences in motoring law cases and strategies for dealing with prosecution case management failures.

Applicants will have the ability to deal robustly with judicial hostility to such legal arguments and believe in the right of the client to be acquitted where the rule of law so requires irrespective of guilt or otherwise.

THE FIRM:

National Motoring Lawyers are a firm of solicitors dealing exclusively in drink driving related cases. Our reviewing lawyers work alongside a panel of advocate lawyers supported by a team of caseworkers and admin staff. We cover all Courts in England and Wales.

CONTACT DETAILS:

Please forward any expressions of interest by clicking The Apply button.

If you have not been approached within 28 days your application has been unsuccessful. Your employer will not be approached without your agreement. PQE levels and salary levels are a guide only. 

Company

About National Motoring Lawyers

National Motoring Lawyers is the trading name of National Lawyer Services which is a firm of solicitors regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA number 499283). You can find the firm on the Law Society website on the following link

https://solicitors.lawsociety.org.uk/office/469067/national-lawyer-services

The firm deals exclusively in drink driving related cases on private client basis. Gary Roberts, the firms’ Principal qualified as a solicitor in 1998. Since 2009 the firm has represented over 6000 clients charged with drink driving related cases. The firm has a team of reviewing lawyers working alongside a panel of advocate lawyers who attend Courts nationally with support from caseworkers and admin staff.

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